Test 7 · ★★★ · Pan, panic and Ulysses: the old myths and old words inside…

«my cousin's gap year was a proper odyssey» What does she mean?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: gap year, she · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: proper odyssey

This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 43 «Pan, panic and Ulysses: the old myths and old words inside «The Wind in the Willows»» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 odyssey	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cousin	nmod:poss
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 year	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 cousin	case
5	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 year	compound
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 odyssey	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 odyssey	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 odyssey	det
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 odyssey	amod
10	odyssey	odyssey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 odyssey	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 mean	obj
13	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 mean	aux
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 mean	nsubj
15	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 odyssey	acl:relcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 odyssey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	my cousin's gap year	a proper odyssey					tree rules
2	mean	present · do-support	she	a proper odyssey					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

It was a short, boring week at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 week	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 week	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 week	det
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 week	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 short	punct
6	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 week	amod
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 home	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 week	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a short boring week		home			tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It was a long, adventurous journey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 journey	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 journey	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 journey	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 journey	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct
6	adventurous	adventurous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 journey	amod
7	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a long adventurous journey					tree rules

Option 3

She read a Greek poem all year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 read	nsubj
2	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 poem	det
4	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 poem	amod
5	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 read	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 read	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	She	a Greek poem			year		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Topic

Option 4

She sailed to Troy in a wooden horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sailed	nsubj
2	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Troy	case
4	Troy	Troy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sailed	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 horse	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 horse	det
7	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horse	amod
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sailed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past	She			Troy		in a wooden horse	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to troy=Trajectory

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